Education, Higher -- Segregation.
Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Found in 2 Collections and/or Records:
Francis S. Hutchins papers
Collection
Identifier: RG 03-3.05
Abstract
Official records and personal papers of the fifth president of Berea College, Francis S. Hutchins.
Dates:
Other: Majority of material found within 1924-1979
Kentucky Day Law and Berea College
Collection
Identifier: RG 13-13.06
Abstract
The Day Law, "An Act to Prohibit White and Colored Persons from Attending the Same School," was signed into law in the Commonwealth of Kentucky by Governor J.C.W. Beckham in March 1904. The law effectively forced Berea College, the only integrated college in Kentucky, to segregate.
As the bill was being debated in the Kentucky House of Representatives Committee on Education, two groups came to Frankfort to lobby the legislators. One group was led...
Dates:
translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1904-2005